Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These creatures have been unfairly treated as scapegoats for dwindling clam populations in regions like the Chesapeake Bay. It’s ...

Florida wildlife officials are turning to local boaters, anglers, and divers to help figure out what is happening to the ...

More than 100 cownose rays died in the waters off the shores of northern Anne Arundel County near Glen Burnie in recent weeks, creating an odor residents say deterred them from leaving their homes.

(WPRI) — Marine biologists with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) made a rare catch while working in local waters this past month. In a social media post shared Tuesday ...

Some Glen Burnie residents are breathing a sigh of relief after dead cownose rays left a horrid smell. Residents who live in the neighborhoods surrounding Marley and Furnace creeks said they dealt ...

This week I came across a cownose ray washed up along the Texas coast. Even out of the water, its shape stood out. The broad, diamond-shaped body and wing-like fins showed how these rays move through ...

It was a beautiful sight to see when a "fever" of cownose rays was seen "moo-ving" around in Old Tampa Bay. Pinellas County environmental scientists spotted the group of rays during a routine water ...

It’s easy to forget about the legion of mysterious creatures that live in the ocean. That is, until you are right on top of them. Like schools of fish, some creatures, such as cownose rays, travel and ...